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The development of active tactile sensors in the form of wrinkles and it's application to soft robotics

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20J15087
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section国内
Review Section Basic Section 20020:Robotics and intelligent system-related
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology (2021)
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2020)

Principal Investigator

QI QIUKAI  東京工業大学, 工学院, 特別研究員(PD)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-24 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
KeywordsAdaptive Morphology / Soft Gripper / Soft Sensor / Wrinkled Sensor / Wrinkled Actuator
Outline of Research at the Start

Inspired by the wrinkle patterns on human fingertips, this research studies how the touch sensing can be benefited by this morphology in order to reveal novel insights on designing smart, intelligent and active tactile sensing systems for robots.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In the first half of this fiscal year, we had put more effort on our new prototypes, RetracTip and AdapTip, which were based on our earlier work on WrinTac. RetracTip is multifunctional gripper augmented with sensing capability. The multi-modal gripping function was achieved by the integration of a bistable membrane, an adaptive morphology that was inspired by the idea of variable morphology of WrinTac. We have characterized the performance of RetracTip in terms of gripping, sensing, and autonomous pick and place functionality, and finally published it in "Soft Robotics", a top journal in the area of robotics. AdapTip is an optical tactile sensor with adaptive morphology. We have done the design and modeling of this prototype, and hopefully we could publish this work in the near future.

Research Progress Status

令和3年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

令和3年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Report

(2 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2021 2020

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] A Sea-Anemone-Inspired, Multifunctional, Bistable Gripper2021

    • Author(s)
      Qiukai Qi, Chaoqun Xiang, Van Anh Ho, Jonathan Rossiter
    • Journal Title

      Soft Robotics

      Volume: - Issue: 6 Pages: 1040-1051

    • DOI

      10.1089/soro.2020.0176

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Wrinkled Soft Sensor with Variable Afferent Morphology: Case of Bending Actuation2020

    • Author(s)
      Qi Qiukai、Van Anh Ho
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

      Volume: 5 Issue: 3 Pages: 1-8

    • DOI

      10.1109/lra.2020.2982867

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] BPActuators: Lightweight and Low-Cost Soft Actuators by Balloons and Plastics2021

    • Author(s)
      Qiukai Qi
    • Organizer
      IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics 2021
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Wrinkled Soft Sensor with Variable Afferent Morphology: Case of Bending Actuation2020

    • Author(s)
      Qiukai Qi
    • Organizer
      IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2020-07-07   Modified: 2024-03-26  

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